Bug #66825 [Opn->Nab]: DateTime::createFromFormat not work as documentation example and more cases

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66825&edit=1 ID: 66825 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported by: nadavvin at gmail dot com Summary: DateTime::createFromFormat not work as documentation example and more cases -Status: Open +Status: Not a bug Type: Bug Package: Date/time related Operating System: windows, linux PHP Version: 5.4.25 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php You have the ! in your format (before the "d"), which is documented at the URL you're pointed to as: ! Resets all fields (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, fraction and timzone information) to the Unix Epoch Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2014-03-05 13:28:37] nadavvin at gmail dot com Description: ------------ problems with DateTime::createFromFormat: 1) example create the date in 1970 instead of 2009 2) failed to create date object from my trying to do format: 'Y-m-d?H:i:sP' Test script: --------------- <?php //example #2 from http://il1.php.net/manual/en/datetime.createfromformat.php $format = 'Y-m-!d H:i:s'; $date = DateTime::createFromFormat($format, '2009-02-15 15:16:17'); echo "Format: $format; " . $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s') . "\n"; //my trying to create from DateTime::RFC3339 format $dt = new DateTime(null,new DateTimeZone('gmt')); //$time = $dt->format(DateTime::RFC3339); $time = $dt->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:sP'); echo $time."\n"; $dt = DateTime::createFromFormat($time, 'Y-m-d?H:i:sP'); //$dt = DateTime::createFromFormat($time, DateTime::RFC3339); var_dump($dt); Expected result: ---------------- 1) Format: Y-m-!d H:i:s; 2009-02-15 15:16:17 2) not false in var_dump($dt); Actual result: -------------- 1) Format: Y-m-!d H:i:s; 1970-01-15 15:16:17 2) DateTime object dump ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66825&edit=1